Retinal ganglion cells transmit visual information from the eye to the brain with sequences of action potentials. Here, we demonstrate how to record the action potentials of single ganglion cells in vivo from anesthetized rats.
Freeman, D. K., Heine, W. F., Passaglia, C. L. Single-unit In vivo Recordings from the Optic Chiasm of Rat. J. Vis. Exp. (38), e1887, doi:10.3791/1887 (2010).